The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-09-22
THE KU--KLUX KHAN.
SOME INTERESTING HISTORICAL
FACTS

About Secret tSocieties--EXtracts from
ssEtowah,'' the New Southern Novel
by Edward Fontaine.
A hen, in gathering her chickens
| toe ether and sheltering them with her
wings, when danger menances them,
cries to them: "Ku- Klux! Ku-kiux!
From SO simple fact originated the
! name of the dreaded secret society
| called the -Klux- Klan.
The statutes of the French car
bonari were most stringent. The
faintest whisper of the secrets OF the
| society to outsiders constituted treason
and was punishable with death. No
written communications were permit
ted. In 1919, there were about 20
900 carbonari in Paris. liz 1871, the
government was officially Informed
! that the society existed in twenty-five
out of the eighty-six departments IN
| France.
The earbonari in Italy and France
were republicans. Men like Voyer
dArgenson, Lafayette, Laffitte, Du-
pont de PEure, Barthr, Teste, and
other republicans Of mark, joined the
movement, and adopted the ritual OF
the Abruzzi carbonari. The Con9res
National of the Carbonari, which had
its headquarters at Paris, seemed for
time omnipotent. All the insurrect-
ionary movements from 1919 to loZZ
were attributed to them.
After the July revolution of 1880,
the carbonarl gave in their allegiance
to Louis Philippe. The conservative
carbonari do not now exist; but the
radical faction founded the new char
bonnerie dentocratique. This carbon
ari is called La Commune. The old
Commune" which acted with the ia.
cobins and reeked with deeds OF
Robespierre and Danton, is dead.
The new Commune are cred Re
publicans" and Socialists; they are
5 members of the Societe InternatlonoIe
the members Of which are called M
hilists in Russia.
The same discomfort, the same VIC
lent agitation by revolutionary prolet
arians, characterized the secret society
C of Ireland.
), The colonel of the Goth New 4orl
regiment, and the general command
ing the "Irish Brigade" in the Unlor
army, were Fenians. Thc-c wcl'
80 900 Fenians regularly enrolled IL
Ireland in 1853. Catholics in Irelant
were prohibited by law from possess
ing firearms. "Circles" we're estab
iished in all the large American cities
and thousands of soldiers in both tn
Union and the Confederate armie
fe were Fenians The Fenian societ
had its ramifcations all over Grea
or Britain and Ireland. A member {
the Canadian ministry was killed o
the steps of his own door; his oppc
sitioh to Fenianism was alleged as IN
motive for the deed. The Duke {
Edinburg was dangerously wounde
o in Port jackson, Australia.
Carbonari in Italy, the Commun
k in France, Fenianism in Ireland, Sot
a ialism in Germany, Nihilism in Ru
= sia, Kukluxism in the Southern State
: Well might the question be asked
y the United States Senate, "Can yo
he lse place in the penitentary walls eigf
he millions of people p
nd Civil law has been annihllated, an
It, t. anarchy reigned supreme. Ihre
.es States now constituted the ''Thir
i'll Military District" Martial law VIZ
mt declared: Magma Charta'' forgotten
Z the "habeas corpus" act anullity.
An ignorant mass of semi civilize
i. beings recently emancipated, were b
e. ing organized in every county in tt
m South into Secret societies calie
ley Loyal Leagues" They were taug
,pt that their former masters were the
~, uiH oppressors and their enemies. II
,ok organizers of these "circles," of the
. "huts,o of these "venditas,' of the
:, Event IS" in the Southern States we
ty' iventurers of the meanest sort; M
without patriotism, and without prl
cipal; men who would have join
IN the anarchists in Russia, lrelan
France or Italy; men who were 4
Nv recognized as good citizens, or respe'
able members of society i'll any ps
=, of the United States. The majori
an of them were penniless adventure
'oliy ,oiyy who had not fought in either arm
ate. They were called "Scallawags."
''s When King Louis XVIII succet
lily cd the Exiled Emperor Napoleon
= 1917, the people of France were
v divided into two parties
Imperialists and triumphant 10y
lists; but they we're Frenchmen, all
I'M the same race, impulses, character
tics and sentiments. Deserters a
traitors faunted the evidence of tn
paid fer treachory before the disgu
and ed eyes of their compatriots, who
vainly followed the fortunes of th
ern- dethroned emperor. Riches folloy
and treachery.
Human nature is the same all
world over, and in all times, an'
aris', all people, success is worshiped
the. tickle populace eager to
"The King is dead long live
H King !"
So it was in the South, and the
As white citizens who became suppll
sboot-licks' to the conqqAEors were
riehed with unearned wealth and
! warded for their ireachery. 1
7 were insalent iii their pretentions,
royant in their professions, memo
ious in their reports, and they a
we're believed and trusted by the [
Prop ernment. Among them Wellins
Mort Tas- Napoleon Potts was a shining Ii
Loans But they we're mere handful, v
neral the illiterate, semi-civillzed neg